Affiliation:
1. School of Electronics and Information Xi'an Polytechnic University Xi'an China
Abstract
AbstractThe next generation of low observable (LO) unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) with highly autonomy to implement a penetration mission requires advanced methods for flyable and safe route planning (i.e., respecting physical capability of vehicle and threat coverage by hostile air defense radars) at a real‐time manner. Currently, the main challenge of real‐time route planning for LO UCAV is to achieve computationally efficiency under dynamic (pop‐up/moving) threats by air defense radars. In this paper, a real‐time planning paradigm in compliance with complex penetration requirements is proposed, and a complete modeling of route planning for LO UCAV's penetration as an optimal control problem is designed. The paper at first devises a direct method to transform the optimal control problem into a nonlinear programming (NLP) problem and then solves the formulated NLP problem under a moving planning horizon. The proposed method can give computationally efficient route planning results for LO UCAV's penetration under multiple kinds of radar threats. Numerical test results based on F‐16 uninhabited platform demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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